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Affairs of the AssociationL. TUFFLY ELLISThe executive council has long been interested in increasing memberparticipation in the affairs of the Association. One way it has done thisis to create a number of committees to plan and execute the variousactivities of the Association. This approach has been very successful inopening up the annual meeting, the various awards committees, nomi-nations to the council, and the efforts to bring in new members.Another avenue to increase members' interest in the Association is tomake the business meeting at the annual meeting a more important andvital gathering. For many years the business meeting consisted mainlyof a few members staying after the Friday luncheon to vote on the nomi-nations to the executive council. During the past two years, however,the business meeting has been held as a separate session and in a differ-ent room from the luncheon. Presidents Ernest Wallace and F. Lee Law-rence took the occasions to share plans and ideas about the Associationwith the members. A number of you told me how much you appreciatedtheir doing so.The Council has now taken another step to increase membership par-ticipation in the Association. So many members do so much for thisorganization, and they do it generously and willingly, that the presentcouncil feels that there should be a more rapid turnover in the councilmembership, in order for more of you to have a larger opportunity tohelp set the general policy of the Association. To achieve this goal theCouncil suggests a few changes in the Association's constitution.Below are given the present and proposed wording for the articledealing with membership on the Executive Council. The changes rec-ommended by the council will be voted on at the business meeting onFriday afternoon, March 7, 1980. We hope that all of you will be pres-ent and will express your opinion on the amendment to the constitutionby casting your ballot.